PSIR 204 | Course Introduction and Application Information

• Öğr. Gör. Dr. Benal Nazlı ÜSTÜNES DEMİRHAN

• Araş. Gör. Nil DİKMENGİL

• to critique the basis for revisionism found in the peace treaties ending WW I comparing the Vienna Order of 1815 with the Paris Order of 1919
• to outline the political and military rise of the totalitarian regimes, the relative decline of the Western democracies and the failure of a “policy of appeasement” and the League of Nations in the Interwar Period
• to examine the outbreak and different phases of WW II
• to identify the origins and the phases of the “Cold War”, the weaknesses of the European Great Powers in the aftermath of WW II and the two superpowers’ strengths and global positions throughout the major crises of the Cold War.
• to explain the reasons of the Soviet collapse in front of the U.S. economic and military challenge in the 1980’s and the end of the Cold War and the bi-polar system of international relations.

Kramer, Llyod., Palmer, R. R. and Colton, Joel. 2020. A History of Europe in the Modern World. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Kennedy, Paul. 1989. The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000. London: Unwin Hyman

Sander, Oral. 2007. Siyasi Tarih: 918-1994. İmge Kitabevi.

All books are either available in the library reserve section or through course Blackboard page.

R.R. Palmer, Joel Colton, Lloyd Kramer, A History of the Modern World, McGraw Hill, New York (any edition)

Eric Hobsbawm, Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century 1914-1991, London, 1994.

Derek Urwin, A Political History of Western Europe Since 1945, Longman, London, 1997 (the fifth edition).

Henry Kissinger, Diplomacy, Simon&Schuster, New York, 1994.

Robin George Collingwood, The Idea of History, Oxford University Press, Berkshire, 1994.